Today’s topics are typography, and more on design. Reading is to look back at the typography pages of HTML & CSS Chapter 12.More design sites with an emphasis on type:
- Microsoft’s gallery of their free fonts that most users have, shown in dummy layouts.
- Here’s a quite complete interactive tutorial on type anatomy, measurement, and classification from Counterspace
- Something similar but newer: Type Terms site
- An explanation of legibility (type design) as opposed to readability (type use) as we defined it.
- Ten ways to make your type more readable on the Web from About.com
- A good free font resource that also supports @font-face: Font Squirrel
- More print-based but an important blog: I Love Typography
- the Google fonts Quick Start page and the Google Fonts library
- good rules of practice from Sitepoint
- 90 tutorials
Here's CSS video #3 (#6 in the course series):
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